TakTuk is an inuit word meaning "fog". I don't know what the original creator of
this tool, Cyrille Martin, had in mind when choosing this name. Maybe it was
just poetic inspiration... Nevertheless, we can find afterwards some
similarities between fog and TakTuk: both spread fast and seamlessly
everywhere.

The two first TakTuk versions have been written in C++ by Cyrille Martin during
his PhD thesis. The third one has been completely rewritten in Perl by
Guillaume Huard. TakTuk 1 and 2 are now obsolete as they are not maintained
anymore.
Although Cyrille Martin did not take part in the development of the third
version, he proposed in his PhD thesis the concept of remote execution
deployment and the overall architecture of a deployment engine which are still
used in TakTuk.
Among other contributor to TakTuk, the most important ones are: Jacques Briat,
Thierry Gautier, Benoit Claudel, Johann Bourcier and Olivier Richard.

Guillaume Huard

Guillaume Huard is associate professor at university Joseph Fourier in
Grenoble. He obtained his PhD in 2001 at the "Ecole Normale Supérieure
de Lyon". He is conducting his research within the ID laboratory
(http://www-id.imag.fr) in the area of
instruction scheduling, grid scheduling, large scale execution deployment and
monitoring.

Cyrille Martin

Cyrille Martin is engineer, he works at a company named Serviware which sells
cluster solutions. He obtained his PhD in 2003 at the "Institut National
Polytechnique de Grenoble". He is specialized in operating systems, cluster
installation, cluster administration and cluster middleware.